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Health and Wealth Shocks: Lauren Hunt, Rebecca Rodin, Tsai-Chin Cho
Episode 362
June Lunney famously characterized the end of life functional course of people with dementia as a slow dwindle over time. Tom Gill later found that p…
1 year, 4 months ago
Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt
Episode 361
Happy Pride Month GeriPal listeners!
Transgender issues are in the news. Just today (June 17th) as we record this podcast:
Ezra Klein released a wo…
1 year, 4 months ago
What You Should Know About Radiation Oncology: A Podcast with Anish Butala, Emily Martin and Evie Kalmar
Episode 360
If you're anything like me, you might find the process of what happens to patients when they visit a radiation oncologist somewhat mysterious. During…
1 year, 4 months ago
Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes
Episode 359
The need for better palliative care in nursing homes is significant. Consider this: the majority of the 1.4 million adults residing in U.S. nursing h…
1 year, 4 months ago
Lucid Episodes: Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi & Andrew Peterson
Episode 358
Have any of you watched the movie "The Notebook"? At the end, one of the characters, who has dementia, experiences an episode of lucidity. When I w…
1 year, 4 months ago
Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison
Episode 357
As you know, dear listeners, I love music. We start each podcast with a song in part to shift the frame, taking people out of their academic selves a…
1 year, 5 months ago
Nudges for Prognosis and Comfort Care in the ICU: Kate Courtright, Scott Halpern, & Jaspal Singh
Episode 356
Our main focus today was on nudging critical care clinicians to consider a more palliative approach to care. Our guests are all trained in critical…
1 year, 5 months ago
Psilocybin in Serious Illness: A Podcast with James Downar, Ali John Zarrabi and Margaret Ross
Episode 355
We've covered psychedelics on the podcast before—first in 2019 with Ira Byock, where we explored their potential role in medicine, and then again in …
1 year, 5 months ago
HIV, Aging, and Palliative Care: Peter Selwyn and Meredith Greene
Peter Selwyn, one of today's guests, has been caring for people living with HIV for over 40 years. In that time, care of people with HIV has changed …
1 year, 5 months ago
Potentially Unsafe Low-evidence Treatments: Adam Marks, Laura Taylor, & Jill Schneiderhan
Episode 353
More and more people are, "doing their own research." Self-identified experts and influencers on podcasts (podcasts!) and social media endorse treatm…
1 year, 6 months ago